New director of Institute of Asian Research appointed

Prof. Yves Tiberghien has been appointed as the new director of UBC’s Institute of Asian Research, effective September 1, 2012, for a five-year term.

Tiberghien is one of UBC’s leading scholars on Asia. He is currently working on a SSHRC-funded multi-year project on the battle for global governance with a particular focus on the role of China, Japan, and Korea in the G20 and in global economic and environmental issues. As a senior fellow with the Global Summitry Project at the Munk School of Global Affairs, he regularly attends G20 meetings (including Cannes 2011 and Los Cabos in 2012).

For more information, visit http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/tiberg/Homepage09/welcome.html.